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Thanks, guys. If you want, there is a brick paper template on Lego's site:
www.lego.com/graph
I found that my printout was actually slightly imperfect, but that might
have been a printer setting, not sure..
I printed mine on really thin paper (tracing paper) so that I could overlay
it over my original picture.
For the nose part that was created perpindicular to the rest of the mosaic,
I did some calculations this morning to confirm that the 'fit' is perfect:
Let the dimensions of a 1x1x1 brick be 6/5x1x1 studs.
Then the width of my nose piece is 5 plates * 1/3 (since they are plates)
* 6/5 = 2 studs.
The same length, in the normal part of the mosaic, is 2 bricks * 1 (since
they are bricks) * 1 = 2 studs.
The length of the nose piece is: 6 * 1 = 6, or 5 * 6/5 = 6.
So the general formula for a length in "units" that can be created both
vertically and horizontally with normal Lego pieces (ie bricks and plates)
is:
A * 1/3 * 6/5 = B * 1
A * 2/5 = B
A * 2 = B * 5, where A and B are natural numbers.
A represents the number of plates you have to stack vertically to get the
length (in studs) B
B represents the number of bricks you have to tile horizontally to get the
same length.
It follows from the formula that if A is any multiple of 5 there is a
corresponding even number B that is an integer.
Likewise, if B is any even number there is a corresponding multiple of 5 A
that is an integer.
So there are many configurations of creating a block that will fit in
perfectly perpindicularly to the surrounding mosaic.
I hope someone can use this knowledge to their advantage.
--
Eric DeGiuli
http://members.home.net/edegiuli/
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> > > http://www.pdn-pix.com/legends/legends9/bookpages_15.html
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> > The mosaic was REALLY cool. Now that I have a reference to the original
> > artwork, it's even more impressive. Good work!
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> Agreed! It's convinved me to finally try a mosaic!
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> Iain
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